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Soprano Trine Wilsberg Lund was born in Oslo and studied there at the Norwegian Academy for music with Håkan Hagegård and Barbro Marklund. After her studies in Norway she went to the Cologne Music Academy with Barbara Schlick. She took master classes of a.o. Svein Bjørkøy, Anne Gjevang and Ian Partridge.
 
Ms Lund won the first prizes at the Norwegian young Singer Competition (1998), The national Queen Sonja Music Competition (2003) and second prizes of the Leipzig International Johann Sebastian Bach-Competition (2004) and the European Mozart Competition in Würzburg (2006).
 
The young soprano recently performed as soloist with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Ochestra with Morten Schuldt-Jensen and the Hamburg Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Simone Young. She sings regularly on international stages and festivals like Bach Festival in Wiesbaden and Festa da Musica in Lisbon. She works together with conductors as Georg Christoph Biller, Peter Neumann, Martin Lutz and Morten Schuldt-Jensen. She sings all kinds of repertoire, a.o. Monteverdi, Vivaldi, Bach, Händel, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Verdi, Grieg, Berio and Bernstein.
 
On the opera stage Trine W. Lund sang Clarice in Haydn, Il Mondo della Luna, Servilia in Mozarts Titus and Amintha in Mozarts Il Rè pastore. 2007-2009 Ms Lund was member of the Opera Studio of the Hamburgische Staatsoper. In Season 2007/08 she sang Polissena in Händels Radamisto and performed in a.o. Die Zauberflöte, Madame Butterfly, Rigoletto, L’elisir d’Amore, Elektra, Daphne, Frau ohne Schatten and Hänsel und Gretel. In the season 2008/09 she sang a.o. Frasquita, Gretel, Sœur Constance and Ännchen and was Soprano soloist in Johann Sebastian Bachs Weihnachtsoratorium.. Furthermore Trine W. Lund sang in the new production of Death in Venice and Iphigénie en Tauride.
 
Her future highlights this season are guest engagements by the Hamburgische Staatsoper for Ännchen, Frasquita, Papagena, Gianetta, French Girl/Lace-seller in Death in Venice, and Antoinette, a main role in the premiere of the new-written opera Le Ball by Oscar Strasnoy. Furthermore she will make an important debut in Theater an der Wien as Amore in L’incoronazione di Poppea.
 
Spring 2010 Naxos will release a CD containing four Schubert masses conducted by Morten Schuldt-Jensen with Ms Lund in all soprano roles. In 2006 she recorded Davide Penitente by Mozart with the same conductor and Paisiello Passion as Testo conducted by Werner Ehrhard, also for Naxos. Ms Lund won the first prizes at the Norwegian young Singer Competition (1998), The national Queen Sonja Music Competition (2003) and second prizes of the Leipzig International Johann Sebastian Bach-Competition (2004) and the European Mozart Competition in Würzburg (2006).